Hi,

I'm looking at this fail report for a module I've written and I'm seeing (in both Ubuntu's Firefox browser and Microsoft's IE8 browser): 
GMPz.xs: In function âRmpz_cdiv_q_2expâ:
GMPz.xs:489: error: âmp_bitcnt_tâ undeclared (first use in this functi
+on)

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The first thing that strikes me is that, in GMPz.xs, there is no such function as "âRmpz_cdiv_q_2expâ".
The second thing that strikes me is that, in GMPz.xs, there is no declaration of "âmp_bitcnt_tâ".

Sure, there's a function called "Rmpz_cdiv_q_2exp", and there's an "mp_bitcnt_t" data type declared - and, if the complaint was about the declaration of the "mp_bitcnt_t" data type then I would simply assume that Bingos had just set up yet another smoker that contained some antiquated build of gmp whose headers did not define the "mp_bitcnt_t" data type.
And I'd probably then go ahead and fix that shortcoming in Math::GMPz.

But ... no, the complaint is clearly and definitively about a non-existent "âmp_bitcnt_tâ" data type.

I'm not the first person to have been subjected to such fuckbrained garbage, and I'm sure that lots of monks will have seen similar before.
But why does this happen ?

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Bizarre and provocatively irritating cpantester reports by syphilis

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